Let us work now…
We will lie down for such a long time after death that it is worthwhile to keep standing while we are alive. Let us work now; one day we shall rest.
–Saint Agostina Pietrantoni (1864-1894)
Hope is power…
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
–GK Chesterton (1874-1936)
Hope means hoping…
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
–GK Chesterton (1874-1936)
Sacrament gives God…
Every happening, every event, every suffering as also every joy, is a sacrament that gives God to the soul.
–Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906)
Take little account of yourself…
If you take little account of yourself, you will have peace, wherever you live.
–Abba Poeman (c. 340 – c. 450)
Early impressions…
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
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